Buyer’s tip: wait until the second half of the new year before purchasing a home in Hong Kong. While prices have already begun to slide in the world’s least affordable housing market, experts say a mi... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong stocks down a wretched 14 per cent in 2018 – the worst performance in 7 years
Hong Kong stocks dropped 13.6 per cent during 2018 – the worst performance in seven years – despite surging on the last trading day on the back of signals of trade talk progress. About HK$4.5 trillion ... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong welcomes 2019 with 340,000 revellers lining Victoria Harbour for HK$14 million fireworks and light show
Watch: Hong Kong’s New Year fireworks display Looking ahead ... and you may succeed “I hope in 2019 there will be more pleasant things and fewer negative [news] reports like traffic accidents or suici... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour lit up by spectacular NYE fireworks display
Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour was the site of a spectacular fireworks display, with thousands of fireworks filling the sky with a rainbow of colours. ( read original story ...)
HNA Group sues company linked to subsidiary Hong Kong Airlines for more than HK$850 million as bad news piles up for struggling carrier
China’s debt-ridden aviation conglomerate HNA Group has sued a company connected to its subsidiary Hong Kong Airlines for more than HK$800 million (US$102.6 million), just two weeks after news surface... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong bus driver behind crash that injured 19 admits to dangerous driving, citing fatigue from caring for sick wife
A Hong Kong bus driver behind a crash which left 19 injured admitted on Monday to dangerous driving and said he had dozed off behind the wheel because he was tired from nursing his sick wife. The Dist... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong filmmaker Ringo Lam Ling-tung, director of 1987’s City on Fire, found dead at 63
Hong Kong’s film and TV industry after 40 years of China’s opening up and reform: once ‘Hollywood of the East’, does future now lie in being mainland’s supporting cast? “The news came very suddenly. I ... ( read original story ...)
Correction in Hong Kong’s property market gathers speed as prices fall 3.5 per cent in November
Prices of lived-in homes in Hong Kong saw the sharpest decline in a single month in November since the global financial crisis in 2008. The monthly home price index, which represents movements in the ... ( read original story ...)
Technology Review: Startups and bitcoin
Looking back at the year about to close, it is most gratifying to witness the proliferation of startups in the city. According to an annual survey by Invest Hong Kong released in mid-December, there w... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong Panel Suggests Converting Golf Course to Address Land Shortage
Using part of Hong Kong’s iconic golf course and developing deserted rural land for housing are among a government-appointed panel’s suggestions to address land shortage in the world’s least affordabl... ( read original story ...)
Liberal Party urges Hong Kong MTR to scrap 3.1 per cent fare increase in 2019
A pro-business political party of Hong Kong has urged the MTR Corporation to not increase railway fares next year. Around 20 members of the Liberal Party gathered at the MTRC headquarters on Friday in ... ( read original story ...)
What should traders of Hong Kong, China stocks expect after a year of ‘heaven to hell’?
Hong Kong reclaimed its crown as the world’s top IPO market in ... “I’m bullish on 2019, no matter based on business cycles or valuation levels,” Lu said. “The worst times represent the best opportuni... ( read original story ...)
Give the job of finding land to a dedicated body to solve Hong Kong’s land shortage crisis, says advisory task force
Hong Kong should have a dedicated body to fast track land creation and build up a land reserve sustainedly, free from economic cycles, to tackle the city’s land shortage crisis, government advisers su... ( read original story ...)
Hong Kong actor Eric Tsang Chi-wai says policeman’s car was ‘totally out of control’ in Japan Christmas Day crash, reveals his ribs fractured
Hong Kong actor Eric Tsang Chi-wai has shed light on a road accident in Japan last week that left a top policeman from the city seriously injured, saying the officer’s van slid out of control and cras... ( read original story ...)